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Stephanie Taylor

Questions over Conservative unity resurface amid bickering over 'Liberal' staff, data centres

Sniping over "Liberal lobbyists" working for a B.C. Conservative leadership campaign and federal Conservatives at odds over a new data centre announcement has some Conservatives calling for more discipline in the movement under Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre. On Thursday, Caroline Elliott, who finished a close second to Kerry-Lynne Findlay in the B.C. Conservative leadership race, issued a direct response to...

Craig Lord

Unemployment rate falls to 6.5% in June as youth add 33,000 jobs: StatCan

A better start to the youth summer jobs market helped the economy record steady employment gains in June, Statistics Canada said Friday. Employers added 18,000 jobs last month, the agency said, mostly in part-time and private sector work. That pushed the unemployment rate down a tenth of a point to 6.5 per cent, back to where it stood in January...

John Paul Tasker

Dozens of senators routinely miss key votes in the Red Chamber

Some legislative changes pass with barely half of all senators casting a vote. Dozens of senators are routinely absent from the Red Chamber and some legislative changes pass with barely half of all members casting a vote, according to a CBC News analysis of attendance records. In the 12 months following the last federal election, the Senate convened for just...

Elise Stolte

'It’s awkward': Why Alberta's separation debate tends to live mostly online

Natalie Lum is proud of a rare and “awkward” conversation she had recently. It was on separatism — a subject people here in Drumheller, Alta., said they normally don’t bring up in what some refer to as polite society.

Ian Bailey

Official Opposition leader’s residence needs upgrades, but no workplan is in place

The historic residence of Canada’s Official Opposition leader needs to be fixed, but the commission in charge of official residences in the Ottawa region says it has no firm plan on how to proceed. Stornoway, a 9,500-square-foot mansion located in Ottawa’s Rockcliffe Park neighbourhood, is more than a century old. The official residence is currently home to Conservative Leader Pierre...

Polls

Nik Nanos

Canadians are over three times more likely to rate Mark Carney’s handling of the economy as good rather than poor

The research gauged the views of Canadians on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s job of handling the economy.

Only 12% of Canadians can name Avi Lewis as NDP leader

Fresh polling by Pollara Strategic Insights offers a reminder of how disconnected most Canadians are from federal politics, with just 57% of Canadians able to name the leader of the federal Conservative Party and only 12% able to name the leader of the federal NDP. This leaves Avi Lewis with much to do this summer when it comes to introducing...

Opinion

Andrew Coyne

Canada is taking an outsized role in the construction of the post-American world

Annual gatherings of the great democracies in the age of Donald Trump have acquired a certain … rhythm. There is the meeting that takes place before the President arrives, when all is as it usually is between world leaders of the same broad ideological hue: convivial open sessions, chummy photo-ops, urgent side-conferences. Then there is what happens after he gets...

Max Fawcett

Twitter is poisoning the Conservative movement

When Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022, he promised to restore its commitment to free speech, eliminate its progressive bias and otherwise preserve its role as the “de-facto public square.” Instead, as anyone who has had the misfortune of spending time there knows, he turned it into a right-wing echo chamber — one increasingly populated with spam, crypto scammers and...

News

Ryan Tumilty

Liberals announce short nomination contest for Beaches—East York

Grassroots Liberals in Beaches—East York will get their say on the party’s candidate in an upcoming byelection with a nomination contest in the Toronto riding that will run for just nine days. The party confirmed Thursday that it will hold an open race for the nomination, concluding with a vote on July 18.

Robert Benzie

Doug Ford poised to call byelections in Scarborough and York Region

The stage is now set for Premier Doug Ford to call key summer byelections in Scarborough Southwest and York—Simcoe. Ford’s Progressive Conservatives finally selected a candidate in Scarborough Southwest with family physician Dr. Noor Tarun winning a contested nomination Thursday night.

Politician's Pen

Mark Carney, Alexander Stubb

Prepare for a world of ad hoc coalitions

We lead two countries that do not have the luxury of relying on old orders of geography. Finland shares a border with a Russia that is waging a war of aggression against Ukraine and actively interfering in other societies instead of reforming its own. Canada shares the world’s longest land border with a United States that is reassessing its priorities...

Senator Andrew Cardozo

Doug Ford is missing the point of what Ontario’s Legislature does

“Rather than sitting here and arguing with each other, we’re actually going to get out there and talk to the people!” That’s how Premier Doug Ford defined the Legislature of Ontario. It was his defence for the unprecedented five-month break and the lowest number of days “The Ledge” will sit in decades.

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John Ivison

Carney may lead the Trump ‘resistance,’ but Canadian casualties are mounting

Real life does not follow the binary framework of the movies, where a Bond-like hero vanquishes a grandiose, arrogant, greedy villain

Robyn Urback

Mark Carney has said nothing about Alberta’s health care reforms. That’s a good thing

It’s not often that a prime minister is lauded for something that he doesn’t do, but Prime Minister Mark Carney is currently being celebrated by six policy organizations for his inaction on an important Canadian regulatory matter. In an open letter published late last month, the CEO of the Canadian Health Policy Institute, the deputy director of domestic policy for...

Anthony Koch

I'm a Conservative who wants to win! That doesn't make me a Liberal

I am sick to death of being told that wanting Conservatives to win elections somehow makes me a Liberal. It's one of the stupidest ideas ever to infect the Canadian political right (and there have been some doozies in recent years), and it has become an excuse for failure. Apparently, if you care whether Conservatives can actually form government, you're...

Don Braid

Smith's big Stampede rollouts aimed at cutting separatist support

The grandaddy of all Stampede political announcements came on July 12, 2004, when PC Premier Ralph Klein held up a sign that said: Paid In Full. Klein declared the provincial debt dead and buried after many years of harsh cost-cutting. The words and the photo sped around the country and beyond. Nobody paid off all debt in those days. Within...

Justin Ling

Trump’s baldfaced America 250 corruption is a reminder to the world, and a warning

There are plenty of ways to celebrate America’s ongoing semiquincentennial: see a fight on the White House lawn, watch the World Cup in the shadow of the Capitol, visit a Great American State Fair on the National Mall. However they celebrate, Americans will likely see banners advertising Freedom250, a private vehicle for outright corruption cooked up by President Donald Trump...

Rick Bell

Defiant Pierre Poilievre fights back, vows to keep exposing Carney as a fake

He's not giving up. He's not backing down. If he was a boxer you'd need to knock him out. The man insists he is not throwing in the towel. He will continue to throw down the gauntlet. Wasn't so long ago Pierre Poilievre had the momentum, drew the huge crowds at rallies across Canada, attracted the young and the working...

Robyn Urback

The humiliation of Pierre Poilievre continues

I’m starting to believe that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is the subject of an elaborate, prolonged hazing ritual. The frat house in this scenario might have better decorum and nicer furniture than those found on college campuses, but the initiation process is the same: subject the pledge to a succession of humiliating rituals to see if and how long he...

Dale Smith

Jamil Jivani’s comments about Pride show how he wants you to hate him

The Conservative MP’s culture war posts about Prime Minister Mark Carney's attendance at Toronto Pride are bait for persecution points

Aaron Wherry

Carney starts to leave his mark on the Senate

Is this the end of Trudeau's independent upper chamber? Though it is perhaps not foremost on their minds when they gain power, every prime minister has the opportunity to put their stamp on the Senate. And if there was particular speculation about what Mark Carney might do in regards to Parliament's upper house, it is because Justin Trudeau's stamp on...

John Ivison

Carney’s oil patch wishes might really come true

The Prime Minister's grand bargain is just intentions for now. But it's harder for Alberta’s separatists to say he's trying to hobble their industry.

Adam Radwanski

Why we should laugh off Doug Ford and Danielle Smith’s costly pipeline scheme

Just how nonsensical does a pitch for a new oil pipeline have to be, in the current political climate, to be rejected out of hand? Courtesy of Doug Ford and Danielle Smith, we’re about to find out.

Les Whittington

Taxpayers to buy Alberta another pipeline in far-reaching shakeup of Canada’s energy picture

When it comes to theatre of the absurd in public life, nothing tops pipeline politics. There was Alberta Premier Danielle Smith—who has accused the Liberals of hamstringing Big Oil, crushing her province’s aspirations, and inciting Albertans to break up the country—turning to the feds to build her long-sought new pipeline.

Andrew Coyne

It’s good that we’re building pipelines, but not so good that we’re paying for them

Suddenly, pipelines are all the rage. Time was when you couldn’t get a pipeline built in this country, for love or money. Three pipeline proposals – Northern Gateway, Energy East and Keystone XL – came and went, dead of political hostility, regulatory obstacles or both. Governments, some of them anyway, seemed positively eager to discourage them. Federal legislation, Bill C-69...

Stephen Maher

Mark Carney senate appointments are the break from Trudeau no one asked for

Mark Carney had better hope that Tom Pitfield and Richard Martel are good senators. If they are not, it will be his fault. Carney announced the two appointments to the Senate on Tuesday, setting aside the non-partisan process established by Justin Trudeau who reformed the Senate appointment process for good reason. Every prime minister before him used the Senate as...

Tasha Kheiriddin

This is why Carney is succeeding

Do politicians start parades, or merely get in front of them? That’s a question Canadians might be asking this week, following news that the government was polling them on the issue of oil pipelines last fall — just days before Prime Minister Mark Carney announced an agreement with Alberta to explore building a new one to B.C.

Brian Lilley

Does Pierre Poilievre actually want to be prime minister?

Instead of building a winning coalition against Mark Carney, Poilievre keeps picking unnecessary fights with Conservatives who should be helping him win.

Lloyd Axworthy

Ukraine has exposed a Russian weakness. It’s up to NATO to fully exploit it

As NATO leaders gather in Ankara, Turkey, this week, much of the attention will inevitably be focusing on U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest complaints about burden-sharing and American leadership. That’s understandable. But, if the summit becomes consumed by familiar political theatrics, it will miss a far more important strategic opportunity. Ukraine has exposed a vulnerability in Russia’s war economy that...

Campbell Clark

Canada picks an ally in its new wave of geopolitical military spending

The South Korean bidder, Hanwha, backed by its government, promised to put money into a Canadian steel plant and put commercials on TV. Germany’s TKMS proposed later subproduction in Canada and lined up Canadian subcontractors. Somewhere in there, on top of the bidding war for highly exaggerated “economic benefits,” was a choice between two top-notch diesel submarines, a key future...

John Ivison

Expensive submarines are the cost to redeem years of Liberal defence complacency

Just over two years ago, the Liberal government released its defence policy review, Our North, Strong and Free, which purported to focus on Arctic sovereignty by defending Canada’s coastline from maritime and airborne threats.

Don Newman

En Route to NATO, Carney Doubles Down on NATO

While the Carney government bills itself as Canada’s “new government”, it has gone with the conventional choice in selecting a German-Norwegian consortium to supply and maintain up to 12 new submarines for the Royal Canadian Navy’s Canadian Patrol Submarine Project (CPSP). After a monthslong contest between South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha and the German/Norwegian consortium TKMS, Prime Minister Mark Carney went...

Matt Gurney

Don’t fret about Trump rejecting the CUSMA trade extension — if anything, he did Canada a favour

Donald Trump has often been described as unpredictable. And that’s true — but when he chose not to renew the CUSMA trade deal, no one could claim to be surprised. The Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement could have been renewed by all three parties on its existing terms for an additional 16 years. Having announced this week that it would not be...

Michael Harris

Canada-U.S. relationship is one bad president away from disaster

Prime Minister Mark Carney is proving that politics at its most important is a big-picture game. Which is to say, it isn’t only about the price of gas, the cost of housing, and the dozens of other kitchen-table issues that normally dominate the public debate.

Susan Delacourt

A prime minister from Alberta firmly closes the door on the Trudeau era

Mark Carney keeps saying he’s running a new government, not just a sequel to the Justin Trudeau years. This week, Canadians may finally have to admit he’s right. As the door opens to a new Alberta pipeline, Carney closed the door on the Trudeau era.

Jaime Watt

Donald Trump offers a master class in what not to do at 24 Sussex

Let’s thank U.S. President Donald Trump for one thing. As Ottawa launches a national competition to restore 24 Sussex Drive, the White House renovations are a lesson in what not to do. A master class, really. Trump is building to glorify himself. The “goldening” of the Oval Office, the transformation of the Rose Garden into a Mar-a-Lago-style patio designed to...

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Ben Spurr

Chris Alexander, former Conservative immigration minister, considering a run for Toronto mayor

A surprise contender may be about to shake up the race for Toronto mayor. Former federal immigration minister and Conservative MP Chris Alexander confirmed to the Star on Thursday he’s weighing a run for the city’s top office.

Devin Stevens

Premier says N.S. ready to meet likely infrastructure demands of Canada's new subs

Nova Scotia's premier says the province has the infrastructure and people needed to meet the expected demands of hosting a new submarine fleet, but critics say more should be done to address clogged roads and hospitals and increased housing prices. Tim Houston says officials have been investing in housing, health care and skilled trades in anticipation of increased pressures on...

Mark Carney, Alexander Stubb

Prepare for a world of ad hoc coalitions

Luca Caruso-Moro

Carney gives update on gun gift he got from Erdogan

Prime Minister Mark Carney says a personalized, engraved pistol he was gifted by Türkiye’s president has been decommissioned. “I would like to reassure Canadians they keep guns away from me,” he said during a news conference in Saudi Arabia on Thursday. “It struck me that my gift of maple syrup kind of undermatched the, whatever it was, .357-calibre,” he added...

Brennan MacDonald

‘Enormous potential’: Japan looks to new Canadian oil pipeline as Middle East supply crunch drags on

As the ongoing war in the Middle East continues to devastate energy supply chains in Asia, Japan’s top diplomat to Canada says his country sees enormous potential in Canadian oil as Prime Minister Mark Carney seeks to turn his energy superpower ambitions into reality. Ambassador Kanji Yamanouchi sat down with CTV Chief Political Correspondent Vassy Kapelos following Carney’s announcement last...

Stephanie Ha

Carney says ‘lecturing countries from afar’ is an ‘ineffective strategy’

As he seeks new economic partnerships around the world, Prime Minister Mark Carney says publicly calling out other countries on issues like human rights is not helpful. “I do see that lecturing countries from afar is an ineffective strategy,” Carney said in a press conference with reporters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Thursday. “It’s satisfying, but it’s ineffective.”

Raisa Patel

B.C. Conservative slams Pierre Poilievre, tells him ‘to unite, not divide’

Pierre Poilievre has found himself embroiled in another dispute within the Tory ranks, this time with a defeated B.C. Conservative leadership candidate who has accused the federal leader of putting personal grievances ahead of the public interest. “Hi, Pierre. Caroline Elliott here. I voted Conservative my entire life. I voted for you in your own CPC leadership race. My family...

Todd Coyne

U.S. ambassador Hoekstra says ‘there’s fault to go around’ on Canada-U.S. rift

The U.S. ambassador to Canada says there is plenty of blame to share on both sides of the border for the souring of the Canada-U.S. relationship and the deterioration of the free trade deal between the two countries. Pete Hoekstra says “irritants” and “tensions” need to be addressed before talks can resume on renewing the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), which...

Dylan Robertson

Canada objects to Olympics loosening restrictions on Russia athletes amid Ukraine war

Canada is objecting to the International Olympic Committee loosening its suspension on Russian athletes. The move would apply to the 2028 games in Los Angeles, opening the door for Russian athletes to compete, but the IOC says it will decide later if they could do it with the Russian flag and anthem. Secretary of State for sport Adam van Koeverden...

David Baxter

Former Chretien chief of staff Eddie Goldenberg has died

Eddie Goldenberg, who served as chief of staff to former prime minister Jean Chrétien, has died. A statement from Global Public Affairs CEO Randy Pettipas, where Goldenberg worked, says Goldenberg died "after a hard-fought battle with cancer." Originally from Montreal, Goldenberg was a lawyer by trade and spent a decade as a senior policy adviser for Chretien before ultimately being...

Erik Hertzberg, Mario Baker Ramirez

Carney Gets High Marks on Economy Despite Recession Talk, Poll Says

Canadians support Mark Carney’s approach to managing the economy, even though he’s presided over the worst first year of growth for a prime minister since at least 1963. A Nanos Research Group poll for Bloomberg News shows 60 per cent of Canadians think Carney has done a very good or good job of handling the economy. That compares with 2...

Graham Richardson

Canada raises human rights concerns as PM Carney visits kingdom

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says she raised human rights concerns and specific consular cases involving Canadian citizens during a meeting with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Jeddah on Thursday. “Engagement doesn’t mean endorsement,” Anand said. “It is necessary to fulfil Canadian values, to represent those values on the world stage and to bring...

Kyle Duggan

Carney's Saudi Arabia trip a 'high-water mark' for relations: Business leader

Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, as he seeks to deepen bilateral trade and investment after years of diplomatic strain. Carney's trip -- the first to the country by a Canadian prime minister in 26 years -- also saw him meet with business leaders in Jeddah, a port city on...

David Cummings

NDP Leader Avi Lewis rules out running in upcoming byelections - Voters in 7 ridings expected to elect new MPs later this year

NDP Leader Avi Lewis will not run for a seat in any upcoming federal byelections. "For now, his focus is on rebuilding the party, in keeping with discussions with the NDP caucus and elected officers, as well as the overwhelming mandate given to him by members to revive the party and prepare it for the next election," the party told...

Kyle Duggan

Iran's attacks on Gulf ships 'unacceptable' and 'unjustified': Foreign Minister Anand

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says it's "unacceptable" that Iran has launched attacks on commercial ships in recent days as it attempts to tighten its grip over the Strait of Hormuz. Anand met with Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Thursday and she says Canada stands alongside Persian Gulf countries as Iran lashes out against them. Speaking with reporters in Jeddah, Saudi...

Tonda MacCharles

Alberta’s separation debate: Whose fight is it anyway?

Should questions about Alberta’s place in Canada be left only to Albertans? Or is it a national issue that should engage other Canadians, especially those with the skill to make a passionate argument for unity? Is that unwanted meddling?

Darren Major

Corporate watchdog was still accepting complaints as Carney abruptly closed it down

Carney said decision was made 'months ago' — when government was touting its work. A corporate watchdog was still accepting complaints right up until the point Prime Minister Mark Carney announced its dissolution — seemingly out of nowhere — despite saying the decision to discontinue the office was made "months" earlier. The Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) was introduced...

Dylan Robertson

Canada's UN envoy touts primacy of global law as advocates say Ottawa pulling punches

Canada is putting international law as one of its top priorities at the United Nations -- as others accuse Ottawa of pulling its punches. Canada's UN ambassador David Lametti says international rules are "under strain" by major and regional powers, and that Ottawa is alarmed by countries killing civilians, aid workers and UN staff. "I don't think anyone's attacking humanitarian...

Annie Bergeron-Oliver

First Chinese EVs arrive in Canada, but they come with a high price tag

A new automaker has entered Canada’s electric vehicle market giving some consumers looking to purchase a new vehicle more options. Lotus, owned by the Chinese Geely Group, recently shipped its first Eletre EVs to Canada under a Canada-China deal signed in January. The premium SUV, made in Wuhan, is the first Chinese-owned and Chinese-built EV available for sale in Canada...

Graham Richardson

Erdogan gave pistols as gifts to NATO leaders. Carney turned his over to the RCMP

Prime Minister Mark Carney was given a personalized, engraved pistol and live ammunition by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he departed the NATO summit in Ankara on Tuesday. The Prime Minister’s Office confirmed all NATO leaders received the unusual gift from Erdogan. Global Affairs Canada said in a statement to reporters travelling with Carney that the gun has been...

Stephanie Levitz

Independent senator joins Conservative caucus a day after Carney appointed ally

The Conservative Senate caucus added a member to its ranks a day after Prime Minister Mark Carney moved to appoint one of his closest allies to the chamber. Leo Housakos, the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, announced that independent Senator Jim Quinn is joining the Conservative Senate caucus. “Senator Quinn’s decades of public service, leadership and commitment to...

Meta to build $13B data centre north of Edmonton, its first in Canada

Meta says Alberta will be home to its first artificial intelligence data centre in Canada. The tech company behind Facebook says the $13-billion project is to be located in Sturgeon County, north of Edmonton. It says the one-gigawatt data centre will be powered by a natural gas power plant. It's to feature a closed-loop water cooling system so it won't...

Anja Karadeglija

Data centre capacity could soar to 20 GW in planned projects: government document

A document prepared for the federal artificial intelligence minister to use when pitching international investors on Canada's AI ecosystem identifies a massive proposed increase in Canada's data centre capacity. But spokespeople for the government pushed back strongly on the figure, saying it is not a projection of the capacity Canada expects to build, and the total capacity will be much...

Dylan Robertson

Carney in Saudi Arabia seeking economic partnership amid human rights concerns

Prime Minister Mark Carney has arrived in Saudi Arabia as he seeks economic partnerships with a strategically important country whose notorious human rights record is only getting worse. Carney is in the city of Jeddah on the invitation of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in what will be the first visit to Saudi Arabia by a sitting Canadian prime minister...

Sarah Ritchie

Here's a look at ridings where voters can expect federal byelections to be called

Richard Martel and Nate Erskine-Smith resigned their seats in the House of Commons on Tuesday, setting a clock ticking ahead of a pair of byelections in Quebec and Ontario -- and they are not the only ones. Voters in a number of ridings across the country will be asked to choose new federal representatives in the coming months as members...

Leigh Kimmins

Trump’s Jaw-Dropping Secret Threat to U.S. Ally Canada Is Leaked

President Donald Trump threatened to drop a diplomatic bomb on Canada at the height of his crazed “51st state” ramblings, according to insiders. Trump began publicly flirting with the idea of absorbing Canada into the U.S. in late 2024, and it soon became a hallmark of his second term. He would refer to then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the “governor”...

Kyle Duggan

Carney defends appointment of his principal secretary to Senate

Prime Minister Mark Carney defended the appointment of his principal secretary Tom Pitfield to the Senate, saying that having people with different areas of expertise is important for the institution. Pitfield, a longtime Liberal strategist, was one of four new appointments announced Tuesday, as the prime minister drops the non-partisan criteria for appointments to the upper chamber. Carney told reporters...

Murray Brewster

Carney backs latest U.S. strikes on Iran as Trump slams NATO allies

Trump says he might have skipped NATO summit if not for friendship with Turkish president. Prime Minister Mark Carney has backed the latest U.S. strikes on Iran, calling it an appropriate response to ceasefire violations. The remarks were made on the way into the NATO Summit in Ankara, where President Donald Trump declared the ceasefire with the Islamic nation over...

Kyle Duggan

Carney unveils more defence spending with $800M missile contract at NATO

Canada will turn to the Norwegian company Kongsberg to acquire joint strike missiles to be used by future Royal Canadian Air Force fighter jets, such as the F-35s. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the contract, worth some $800 million, at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, where allies are unveiling tens of billions in military-related spending. It comes days after...

Ian Bailey

Commons petition urges to scrap funding for Official Opposition leader’s residence

Canada’s tradition of providing a residence for the Official Opposition leader is being targeted by a parliamentary petition advanced by a Victoria resident. As of Tuesday, Carol Burman’s petition to stop funding Stornoway as a private residence for the Opposition leader had received 14,831 signatures. The petition opened for signatures on May. 1. The option to sign closes July 30.

US Poli

The Associated Press

The Latest: Trump refuses to sign housing affordability bill in protest over GOP voter ID law

President Donald Trump has chosen not to sign a sweeping housing affordability bill Friday, in protest of Congress not approving a strict voter ID bill that lacks sufficient support to pass.

Bill Barrow, The Associated Press

Donald Trump ousts election commission members in latest push to reshape US voting process

President Donald Trump has ousted members of a bipartisan federal election commission that resisted his efforts to require would-be voters to document their U.S. citizenship before registering.

The Associated Press

South Florida's Palm Beach airport renamed President Donald J. Trump International

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A South Florida airport officially changed its name on Thursday to the President Donald J. Trump International Airport.

Steve Peoples And Linley Sanders, The Associated Press

Most American Jews don't feel supported by either party or President Trump, new AP-NORC poll finds

NEW YORK (AP) -- Yahm Levin is a diehard Democrat who lives in one of the nation's most liberal cities. And yet the 39-year-old Jewish woman from Los Angeles is sometimes afraid to use her first or last name when meeting people -- even those who share her progressive politics.

Iran's attacks on Gulf ships 'unacceptable' and 'unjustified': Foreign Minister Anand

Dylan Robertson

Canada's UN envoy touts primacy of global law as advocates say Ottawa pulling punches

Think Tank

Trevor Tombe

Rebalancing Canada: A two-pillar reform of equalization and federal transfers

Federal-provincial transfers are among the most important – and politically contested – features of Canadian public finance, yet they remain among the least understood. Based on the principle that Canadians, regardless of where they live, should have reasonably comparable access to public services at reasonably comparable levels of taxation, the equalization system serves a core stabilizing role in Canada’s decentralized...

Brian Cox

Hamas announced it is stepping down in Gaza. It’s time for Canada to step up.

Megan Gaucher

Which families belong? Rethinking Canada’s Family Class Program

Family members make up roughly one-quarter of Canada’s annual permanent resident admissions, and governments regularly celebrate family reunification as a pillar of Canadian immigration policy. Yet, the Family Class Program still reflects a narrow, outdated understanding of what constitutes a family and continues to impose inconsistent, sometimes opaque barriers that prevent many migrant families from reuniting.

Substacks

A collection of SubStack publishing within Canadian public affairs.

Martin Coiteux

Let’s Stop Obsessing Over CUSMA

Canada’s political and media spheres seem to have developed an unhealthy obsession with the CUSMA. Will it survive the whims and shifting moods of the US president? Will we ever regain the level of access to the American market that we took for granted just a few years ago? What price will we have to pay to preserve what remains...

John Hancock

When Efficiency Eclipses Equality

The great promise of the post-war era was that growth and fairness could advance together. That promise is breaking down – not just because of government failures, but because the nature of growth has changed. The same knowledge economy that is generating extraordinary growth requires fewer people to create it – and concentrates its rewards in fewer hands. Today’s increasingly...

Don Wright

Who Benefits When Alberta’s Energy Sector Expands? The Answer May Surprise You – Again

In 1995 the Canadian economy was not exactly humming along – it still hadn’t got its mojo back after the severe 1990-92 recession. The unemployment rate was 9.5%, GDP per capita had only just made it back to the level of 1989, and steep spending cuts in Paul Martin’s February budget signaled more contraction.

Podcasts

Canada cozies to Europe with German sub pick

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a $100-billion dollar contract to replace Canada's submarine fleet will be awarded to Germany and Norway, marking the largest contract of its kind in Canadian history. The choice though, goes beyond the subs themselves and sends broader signals to who Carney is eyeing to create lasting trade relations with.

Mark Carney’s Saudi Arabia reboot

Mark Carney met with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in Saudi Arabia this week, aiming to strengthen ties and build up our economic relationship in areas like AI and critical minerals. It’s been 26 years since a Canadian Prime Minister visited the country, despite the fact that they’re a major trading partner. The relationship had come with friction over things...

The Numbers: New leader, who dis?

Don’t you know who I am? For many Canadians, the answer is “no” when it comes to some of our political leaders. A new poll from Pollara suggests that very few Canadians can name the leader of the NDP (Avi Lewis) or any cabinet ministers, while Pierre Poilievre’s recognition hasn’t shifted much over the last three years. Plus, many people...

Yahoo, Canada! | Stampede politics, plus 200 seconds with Corey Hogan

Cowboy hats, cowboy boots and big buckles: Nick Taylor-Vaisey and Mickey Djuric record on location at the Calgary Stampede, where this year’s celebrations are politically charged amid sharp grievances. One test to be decided: Can a pipeline soothe a separatist mood? Plus, Calgary Liberal MP Corey Hogan sits down for a 200-second interview.